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This thread is specifically for signup to and discussion about the GWJFFL, the official Fantasy Football League(s) of Gamers with Jobs. For general fantasy football, please visit the catch-all thread.

Registration is on a first come, first serve basis, with priority given to returning owners. Teams who sign up after all positions are filled will be added to an alternate list to be contacted should a slot become available. The waiting list carries over from year to year so signing up as an alternate for this season reserves your position until you forfeit it.

Point Calculations: Team scoring will be carried out to the hundredth (e.g. a team may score 94.75 points).

Free Agent Acquisitions/Blind Bidding: The free agent system will be a “blind bidding” process. Each team will start with $100 free agent “dollars” for the season, and will be permitted to bid for free agents on a weekly basis. No team will be informed of any other team’s free agent bids until after the winning bids have been awarded. A team owner will no longer be able to bid on free agents once their season long waiver wire cap of $100 has been reached.

Promotion and Relegation: In order to provide additional incentive for competitive play, the GWJFFL uses a promotion and relegation system. If and only if positions for promotion do not come available through natural attrition, the rules for relegation from the upper divisions will be implemented.

Returning veterans (only last year counts) that post by 23:59 CDT next Thursday, 08/11, will be guaranteed a spot. (Important Note: If you got left on the waiting list last year, you will be treated as a veteran for the purpose of re-claiming your spot on the waiting list, but you still need to check in.) Beginning 08/12, all sign-ups are first come, first serve. Expansion teams (i.e. new owners) should still post ASAP because you'll be added to the waiting list in the order you post to fill what slots remain once the veterans have had their head-start.

Assuming there continues to be sufficient interest, there will again be 3 GWJFFL leagues. "Sufficient interest" means that there are at least 30 unique managers signed-up. The maximum number of participants is 33.

Special note: As mentioned here, the relegation procedures in the current version of the rules are the ones that will be effective at the end of this year. Should we need to utilize relegation this preseason, we will use the process described here.

Last year, in week 14, I wrote:

Promotion happens based on year-end rankings and so relegation will do so as well. The top two teams have the option of going up. If and when necessary, the bottom two teams will do down.

Now for the spice:
1) Since the two participants of the "Super Bowl" are eligible for promotion, the two final teams in the consolation tournament (aka the "Toilet Bowl") earn immunity from relegation for the following year.
2) Should the commissioner be one of the bottom two teams, or should one of the bottom two teams earn immunity, the #10 team becomes at risk for relegation.
3) If the commissioner is one of the bottom three teams, AND one of the other bottom teams earns immunity, #9 becomes at risk for relegation.
4) If the commissioner is on of the bottom four teams and BOTH of the bottom teams make it to the toilet bowl, the #8 team is at risk for relegation.

Remember that relegation is not guaranteed. It will only be utilized should positions for promotion not come available through natural attrition.

I'll figure out what that means in practical terms if we don't have promotion slots open up through natural attrition.

Wear the Filthy Skimmer badge with honor. For we have all, at one time or another, been filthy skimmers. And it is our brotherly duty to remind each other, that although the path of the skimmer is quick, it is also treacherous.

Chumster is out. Sent an invitation to Damnsammit since I was surprised he didn't sign back up after winning GWJFFL2 last season. Will send invites out to a couple more (with the first one to claim it winning the spot) tomorrow afternoon if he hasn't grabbed it by then.

Sorry, dude, your invitation from Fleaflicker went out last Wednesday and you had a bit more than a week to fill out a few form fields and click some buttons. You can't expect to show up at the store after the doors are locked and have them still sell you something. You're welcome to try again next year.

Second GWJFFL3 invite fired off to thejustinbot. I've now got two invites out for one slot. First in wins. Act now. Operators are standing by.

Edit: Well that was fast. It looks like we're finally full. I'll move on the the next phase now: sorting out divisions and figuring out draft dates.

Edit2: Since I was already realigning GWJFFL3 this year and since I had to move teams around to get them into the right divisions anyway and since thejustinbot came back, I changed where some of the teams were going to the two gents from Greenville, SC could be in the same division. Map updated.

Edit3: Division alignments verified and draft orders set. Check your emails for links to the whenisgood board for your league's draft. Remember, the first league to get full participation gets first shot at their draft times. You might need to go to the message board itself to get the full link as fleaflicker tends to truncate them down in the text.

Sent in my preferred draft times (GWJFFL3) and, like I said in the note I sent in as well, my wife is planning a family trip over the long weekend. I put my preferred times, but if I am the only one keeping GWJFFL3 from getting a unanimous time, I will just set up an auto-draft.

Remember when you're indicating your availability, folks, that, in most cases, we've got participants on both coasts and you're going to have to be a bit flexible. Don't just block out the times that are best for you; indicate any time that you could do it if you had to. Thanks.

Edit: Also note that in order to squeeze these in between the end of preseason and the start of week 1, I'm going to have to fit 4 drafts into 5 nights so seriously... be flexible.

I have a feeling the three leagues that fill up first will be on the 5th, 6th, and 7th respectively, with the odd man out getting either really late at night one of those days or sometime over the weekend.

Ouch... I'm on vacation that weekend and then have other FFL drafts Monday and Tuesday. Looks like I'm only available Wednesday.

Fletcher wrote:

Wear the Filthy Skimmer badge with honor. For we have all, at one time or another, been filthy skimmers. And it is our brotherly duty to remind each other, that although the path of the skimmer is quick, it is also treacherous.

1 and 2 already have no date/times that work for everyone and K and 3 only have date/times on Wednesday that have no conflicts at all. Remember that you can edit your submissions and be as flexible as possible.

Shall I open up some earlier dates and run the risk that someone gets injured after being drafted?